Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Edsel S. Ford, at Detroit, a daughter. She is Henry Ford's third grandchild, first granddaughter...
Keziah Duff of Lansing, Mich., told a banker in Wichita, Kan., that Edsel Ford told him that Henry Ford seriously planned to make a race for the Presidency...
...Edsel Ford is almost as big a man as his father, and has more breadth of mind and understanding. He is completely whitewashed from the charge of being a slacker...
...total assets were less than $100,000, and Mr. Ford did not himself hold a controlling interest in the original capital of $28,000. In 1906 Mr. Ford obtained a 51% interest and control of the company. Later he acquired 7½% more, and finally his son, Edsel, bought in the remaining 4½%. At present the father and son are the only stockholders...